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Re: Re: A Friday?
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Posted by Bryan on August 21, 2001 at 05:42:01 from (209.153.177.44):
In Reply to: Re: A Friday? posted by poorerbut on August 21, 2001 at 05:02:18:
Friday tractors were manufactured in Hartford, Michigan, the brainchild of David Friday, a fruit farmer and extraordinary mechanic of the region. They are intended for orchard work, and indeed use a Chrysler 6-cylinder engine and Chrysler rear end. While it might be the fastest tractor ever made, I think you would be hard-pressed to get it up to 50 mph -- 40 seems more reasonable. They were intended for use in the field, but the high end speed was intended for road work, pulling fruit trailers to the processing plant. They are related by design and lineage to the Love tractor, and earlier, David Friday also made motor cultivators (I guess you would call them that) known as Doodlebugs. They obviously aren't as polished a design as something that Deere or IH would have put out at the same time. But they have a great reputation around southwest Michigan, as many fruit farmers used them and Friday stood behind their work. They might be an oddball, but they're a great little antique tractor. Whether it was mowing, pulling a spray rig or hauling produce to market, the west Michigan fruit industry owes a historical debt to the Friday tractor.
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